Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Every trading server invariably uses some non-http network daemon. There's always more than 1 process (JVM, C# or c++) on the server side. There's usually some MOM daemon such as JMS, tibrv and gemfire notification daemon. Here are some Fundamental questions:

Q22: on top of tcp/udp, what specific network protocol between the server-side and GUI?
A: I have seen rmi and protobuf over tib ems.

Q22a: how about JMS between server and swing? Did we see 160 subscribers on a given topic, due to that many swing installations?

Q33: on top of tcp/udp, what specific network protocol among the server-side processes?
A: I have see tibrv, JMS, RMI, gemfire data distribution protocols ...

Q44: since most trading servers must avoid DB latency, where does the trading data live? In memory?
A: i have seen gemfire, rttp,

Q45: in case of distributed cache (not replicated), how does one cache listener update another node?